Tube amps known to have a low damping factor?


Which tubes amps are known to have a characteristically low damping factor, 20 or less? Which are known to have a characteristically high damping factor?
pmboyd

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Higher damping factors are not a free lunch; something has to be traded off to get there, and that something is the ear-friendly distortion behavior of a low (or zero) global negative feedback amp.

Most SET and OTL amps have a low damping factor, but they work fine on speakers designed with such amps in mind.

I suggest reading this paper before you select an amplifier; it will be helpful regardless of what type of amp you go with:

http://www.atma-sphere.com/Resources/Paradigms_in_Amplifier_Design.php

Duke
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